Tower Name: Unknown Towers
No. Of Floors: 61 + 58
Height: ?
Use: Hotel + Res
Construction Start: 2007
Construction Ends: 2010

Arabian starts building twin towers in Dubai
CONSTRUCTION UAE
5 Oct 2007
Lebanon’s Arabian Construction Company has started work on a AED 873 million ($237 million) twin tower development on Dubai’s Shaikh Zayed road.

Located near the Burj Dubai development, the 30-month contract involves the construction of a 58-floor hotel tower which will cover a built-up area of about 66,000 square metres. The second tower is a 55-floor residential building covering a built-up area of about 62,000 square metres.

Both buildings will sit on top of a three-floor podium and a basement level with shops, restaurants and health clubs. The project also includes a six-level car park.

US-based Fentress Bradburn is the architect for the project. The local office of KEO International Consultants is the consultant. The client is a local private

R

could these two be them:

Dubai Mixed-Use Towers
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

http://i20.tinypic.com/2qxyoeg.jpg

Like the refracting sheets of light that rise from a desert mirage, shimmering veils of glass define two towers, blurring the border between land and water or the desert salt flats and the Gulf. The veil-like folded sheets of glass that cover the entire front façades create the sense of a patterned vernacular sunscreen and carve familiar shapes into the Dubai skyline on a monumental scale. Each tower bends and creases independently as it rises into the sky, creating both a sense of individuality and unity. This 1,500,000-square-foot high-rise development is divided into two distinctive, slender towers - one 53 stories and one 60 stories - situated on each side of a multi-story atrium lobby space. The Suites Tower houses hotel and luxury service apartments, while the Residential Tower houses rental apartments.

http://www.fentressarchitects.com/Dubai.htm


if so we have seen them before

R

sorry could someone correct the thread title pls! thanks :)

R

These can be near Al Hekma Tower. That's the only area of SZR that is in a total mess (Metro, Defence Roundabout, Double decker road) and we can't see what's really going on.

It would be great if those two will be the towers though ... and yes we have seen them floating around for at least a couple of years.

http://www.fentressarchitects.com/Images/Used/MAIN_dubai.jpg

:omg:

http://www.fentressarchitects.com/Images/Used/MAIN_dubai.jpg

oh come on!!! why cant they just straighten up??:bash:

^^ There are enough "straighten up" towers already, we need variety. :cheers:

absolutely :). another dancing towers ^^

One of the possible sites: The boarded up huge plot, behind the Abyaar Billboard and to the left of Al Hekma site (bottom left of the pic).

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/9195/imresolt032ht9.jpg

bump

Wow the downtown and SZR is getting hystericly awesome

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Awesome! The Emirates Towers block is getting competition around Dubai.

ZETAS FOUNDATIONS has started work on the big site next to Al Hekma Tower.

We are not sure if these towers will be build there, but ACC has worked with ZETAS before on Rose Rotana, Al Yaqoub, Princess and Elite Residence Towers so it might show that this site is indeed the correct one.

I hope, these towers would be such a compliment to the other towers. As well as a nice blend if dancing towers and dubai towers (the ones in the lagoons) get built.

Hope they will be build on this plot!! Should look awesome in this area!! :eek:

No info about the name?? Board??

^^ No sign of any project board on site.

^^:bash: :bash: :bash:

Oh please bring this one.. we know this proposal for years..

Piling is well underway throughout the site but still no visible project board.

Good to hear that !! Board maybe will follow soon !!

Am just a little confused. So these are next to burj place right?

^^ Yes but a road is between them. On the other hand, the double-sized plot is just on the left of Al Hekma Tower (as the picture on post 10 clearly shows).

What about the al hekma tower, anything going on there?

^^ Still ground "work". :ohno:

ACC banners are hanging now on the site boarding so at least we know for shure this is the correct construction site. We have just to confirm the real towers design now.

Two project boards are up on site but still blank.

They put the tags there (apart the render, as of yesterday) and it says Dubai Mixed Use :wtf:

Yes, it says:

DUBAI MIXED USE
The Private Office

KEO were involved as well but couldn't find anything on their website ... and of course no render on the board as of yet.

:bash: damn !!! Cityscape?? Hope so :hm:

So still unknown to us :D Try again altind .

They have three project boards on the site and in one of them they put a render already. It is difficult to see but it doesn't seams like these two ... unless the picture shows them from an angle and in the background is a third tower.

(The site can be good for three towers also)

Mhhh , :hm: maybe you can take a picture and show us the board ..... :hm:

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:omg: It really are these towers :omg:

Wow! These one's are going to be awesome! I wonder who the owner for these are.

We have heard years a go for two towers planed for around that area but members of Abu Dhabi's Royal Family, so I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case.

^^ from the name you feel it " AD Royal Family around it " .

19/December/2008

The Private Office

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The Aliens have landed on the North tower. :cheers:

The Aliens have landed again, this time South. :cheers:

Great Great Great !!!! :cheers2: :okay:

20/February/2009

The Private Office

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27/April/2009

Burj Place , The Private Office and Hekma Tower plots

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So, how's this one progressing, is it visible from SZR yet?

^^ Yes, both central cores and the smaller auxiliary ones (probably for the podium/plazza levels only) are up 3 - 4 levels. The pillars for the structure have started to rise too.

Interestingly the central cores are shaped differently, probably because of the different usage of each tower and different vertical traffic predicted for them.

These towers will be phenomenal and will give a heightened sense of class to SZR. Can't wait for these to start rising!

http://i39.tinypic.com/30sbvwz.jpg

^^ Wrong pic mate. ;)

sorry :( wrong thread.

Just reposting. By Sale.

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Core looks as high as the metro now.

Great info man !! :eek:

Jul 12th

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only really big NEW building for about 6 months

19/July/2009

The Private Office

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is ACC doing the mechanical works there or they got a subcontractor?

These buildings are terrific. Maybe one of the best designs for SZR.

02/Aug/09
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thanks to bizzy!

man we will have a lot of (twin) towers in this area!

Dubai Rising..... again! :)

I went by the site today... didnt get a camera, but could see TONNES of people working on these 2. Good news! Go Dubai!

08/August/2009

The Private Office

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08/August/2009

The Private Office


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Good progress for these twins. For certain, yet another gem for Dubai!

26/August/2009

The Private Office

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form work jumped

Kinda slow...........

03/September/2009

The Private Office

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Is it on-hold? If not, it is going really slow.

slow???

podium already visible from the metro

20/October/2009

The Private Office

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height is "more than 210m"

here is the source: http://www.fentressarchitects.com/portfolio.htm

That is good, although I would have expected that considering that the one building has 61 floors. Hell, for all we now it could be over 1000 ft. Although I seriously doubt it.

So what will be the weird story associated with this construction that is happening when all around is on hold.

Dissapointment to follow for some further down the line is my guess.

the Abu Dhabi Royal Family behind this tower , money is not a big problem for them:)

so it will be finished while most of Emaar wont.

I'd imagine when Emaar have some money they'll finish standpoint residences, 29 BD boulevard, etc but not build the burj park towers, etc, which are just holes at the moment. Can't see what other priority build they will have.

they should finish at least the:

Boulevard Plaza ( U/C)
Boulevard Central
Standpoint Residence
29 BD Boulevard
Claren

projects because I think most of investors paid 80% and only the final payments left.

I have heard a gossip about some empty plots , it belongs to Abu Dhabi now with the JBR hotels as well .It was a part of the fund deal.

Dont know its true or not but if you are walking around the JBR you will see the small sign, Abu Dhabi National Holiday Group or similar :)

the Abu Dhabi Royal Family behind this tower , money is not a big problem for them:)

so it will be finished while most of Emaar wont.

Ah, Thanks Imre, I thought that something like this would atribute to the progress whilst others fell by the wayside.

when are these going to get done i am going creazyyy

27/October/2009

The Private Office

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Ah, Thanks Imre, I thought that something like this would atribute to the progress whilst others fell by the wayside.

It's not only the money, it's their power. They get the best contractors, the best bids and the highest construction speed because nobody can afford making them angry... ;)

It's not only the money, it's their power. They get the best contractors, the best bids and the highest construction speed because nobody can afford making them angry... ;)

Fear factor!!!

always works.

Not really. Abu Dhabi backed projects have never been the fastest constructed ones, and this is not an exception.

But look at the horse race course Nad Al Sheba. Before Arabtec was kicked out of the job the progress was just INCREDIBLE.

Maybe it's not always the case with Abu Dhabi projects but the more wasta you have the faster is your project going (not only construction, the permits and red tape ist much less of an obstacle for you).

Have you ever experienced a DIFC project on FAST TRACK?! These guys get what they want... ;)

^^ Zayed Mosque comes to mind ... Etisalat Tower in Dubai also ...

03/November/2009

The Private Office

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:)Beautiful shots! About 5-6 six floors up each. Amazing!:)

looks small here:)

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28/November/2009

The Private Office

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Certainly not the fastest of towers.

is it just me or are there no workers on site?

I don't see any.:bash:

There are workers on site, but progress is slow.

21/December/2009

The Private Office ,

bad news ,it seems ON HOLD

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Yes it does ... seen that too

Yes it does ... seen that too

Maybe they realised that the office market is totally dead and decided not to waste their money for this one?

^^ Actually the thread title is wrong. 'The Private Office' refers to the client, the project name is 'Dubai Mixed Use"

^^
actual one is better :)

U/C again!

I saw the site today, many workers there.

OK, have changed back the title. Please keep an eye on this one and Hikma tower as well.

Any new pictures?

Nops :D

I don't see neither workers nor any visible progress on site. They do keep the lights on though.

Workers there , will be visible progress soon.

25/January/2010

Dubai Mixed Use , The Private Office

As AltinD said we should rename it, project name is Dubai Mixed Use :)

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Any updates?

And has the final height been released? With 61flrs. I would expect at least 700+ft.

dd

^^ Thanks, would you know the height?

aa

The heights are more than 210 metres according to Constructionweekonline

Scope | The project calls for construction of Dubai Mixed-Use Towers adjacent to the Burj Dubai. The dancing sisters rise more than 210 metres. The total built up area is around 213,000 square metres.

Schedule | KEO International Consultants is the main consultant, while Fentress Architects is the architecture. Arabian Construction Company (ACC) was awarded the main construction contract. Construction is in progress.

Remark | The towers were nicknamed the Spice Girls in reference to Dubai's role in the spice trade.
http://www.constructionweekonline.com/projects-784-dubai-mixed-use-towers/


Spice Girls Towers? :lol:

Sunday

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30.03.
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thanks for the updates! :banana:

23 April 2010

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So this is a hotel for the Sofitel group?

So this is a hotel for the Sofitel group?

Yes.

03/May/2010

The Private Office , this going to be Sofitel Luxury Hotels

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21 May 2010

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29 May 2010

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please don't tell me that this will be the final cladding colour. It looks cheap and 80's style. The front looks so nice they should not ruin the towers with such a horrible back.

But however it is good to see that things are moving here, definitely a good sign.

^^ It's the back of the tower that is a parking structure. See the renders, it's exactly as in them. Though it is strange that they are progressing only on one tower.

04 June 2010

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WOW it will be a incredible race between Al Hikma Tower and this one :nuts:

thanks for the regular updates SSC man!:banana:

tower on Southern side (office ) is not moving at all, seems all focus on the hotel tower

16/July/2010

The Private Office/Dubai Mixed Use

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http://www.skyscraperlist.com/showthread.php?439-THE-PRIVATE-OFFICE-61F-58F-Hotel-Res-m

Thanks to 234 Sale (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/member.php?u=72175):)

I'm not sure why, but I imagined that they will be all wavey on the back side as well - a flat wall won't do them any good IMO.

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I think Private Office is going fast!....all of a sudden

01 Oct 2010

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WOW this is seriously ultrafast :eek2:
thanks a lot for the updates!!

24th Oct 2010

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November 10th

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Dubai, Sheikh Zayed Road (http://www.flickr.com/photos/stewie1980/5224595287/) by Stewie1980 (http://www.flickr.com/people/stewie1980/), on Flickr

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Dubai, Sheikh Zayed Road (http://www.flickr.com/photos/stewie1980/5225191898/) by Stewie1980 (http://www.flickr.com/people/stewie1980/), on Flickr

22/12/10
See here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ecwc/5285269356/sizes/l/in/photostream/

Ben Roberts

Jan 21, 2011

http://www.constructionweekonline.com/pictures/gallery/300x200/tile-grounting_web.jpg
The interior packaging includes tiling.

Arabian Construction Company (ACC) is planning to issue a tender for the interiors package of the Dubai Mixed Use project in Downtown Dubai within the next six weeks, according to the company.

Raed Khaled Khadijah, construction manager at the Lebanon-headquartered contractor that is the lead builder on the project, said the issue would coincide with the scheduled completion of the structure of what will be a 49-storey residential and office tower.

“It will be approximately in one-and-a-half months,” he said today. “It will be a package, including toiling work and some MEP work and some other things.” It is the last of the sub-contracts to be awarded.

The whole project also includes a 31-storey hotel next to the residential and office tower. The two structures share a five-storey podium, which connect to a seven-storey car park via two bridges as well as two tunnels that allow both access as well as services. KEO Consulting has been the consultant on the project, which has been in construction for the last three years, with PERI providing the formwork.

The hotel structure is currently frozen at five floors as ACC await the redesign for the structure from the client, originally due last year, according to Mohamad Hamze, project manager. These new designs are expected at the same time as the completion of the residential/office structure, which currently stands at 44 floors for the core wall.

http://www.constructionweekonline.com/article-10845-interiors-tender-for-dubai-mixed-use-due-soon/

so they got shortened? awww....and why is the hotel only 31? At least they shuld be the SAME height...so the new floor count (with podium) would be wat...53 and 35?

and that article was VERY informative! thanks @ Dubaiiscool:)

R

so they got shortened? awww....and why is the hotel only 31? At least they shuld be the SAME height...so the new floor count (with podium) would be wat...53 and 35?

and that article was VERY informative! thanks @ Dubaiiscool:)

R


Yes, it is a shame!

I guess you're right, though... they should have been the same height.

Oh well, at least the oversupply caused by the completion of the res/com tower will be slightly less catastrophic than if it were to be built to it's original height of 61 levels! ;)

27/January/2011

Dubai Mixed Use (The Private Office)

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04/February/2011

Al Hikma Tower and The Private Office (Dubai Mixed Use)

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17/February/2011

Dubai Mixed Use (Private Office) and Al Hikma Tower

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why do they build these big ugly boxes at the bottom of each tower? ive never these these in other cities

^^ this are parking garages.

The concrete on this one seams to have topped. Hopefully once this is done (main structural work) they will start with the office tower right away.

very nice Imre ;)

I hope they are building the second tower too

Some news, they have resumed work on the second tower, concrete is being cast.

I can confirm that. I took some pics from Burj Khalifa on February 26th.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5132/5507657444_23a797f846_b.jpg

Cladding also started. You can see it at the bottom of the right tower.
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I saw the resuming of work on the second tower as well.

Hope it's not an office tower as originally planned!! :runaway:

Its 50 floors now or more, should be topped out soon. But I wonder about the height. not less than 240m I think.

from today:

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R

^^ folding away nicely there :)

The office tower is progressing nicely too. The core is on the 10 or so level with the regular floors following a few levels behind.

Checked today: Floorplate No. 10 under construction, the core 2 more levels up


BTW: The interim project name is actually 'Dubai mixed Use'

Checked today: Floorplate No. 10 under construction, the core 2 more levels up


BTW: The interim project name is actually 'Dubai mixed Use'

Perhaps they will appoint someone to manage it later, so it's just a holding name? And are we sure the second one is an office tower? Could be a hotel? :dunno:

^^ The topped out (almost) tower is a SOFITEL Hotel. We always knew that.The second one is offices.

Sofitel Hotel and Office Tower? :D

22/April/2011

Dubai Mixed Use , The Private Office

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Seen in the distance.........

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Different angles.........

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Sofitel plans new luxury hotels in UAE

United Arab Emirates: 23 hours, 33 minutes ago

French luxury hotel chain Sofitel is planning to open three properties in the UAE by the end of next year and is in talks to manage a property on Saadiyat Island, The National has reported. The first of the new properties, the Sofitel Abu Dhabi Capital Plaza, is expected to open in the fourth quarter of this year on the Corniche. Sofitel, which opened the five-star Dubai Jumeirah Beach hotel on the Palm Jumeirah last year, plans to follow this with a resort on the Crescent and a hotel on Sheikh Zayed Road near the Burj Khalifa towards the end of next year.

http://www.ameinfo.com/265351.html

R

^^Cool! So a Sofiel Palm Jumeirah and a Sofitel Sheikh Zayed Road? Nice!

Come on, is not like we didn't know who the hotel operator was for the last 2 years.

PS. There's Sofitel in JBR too

Come on, is not like we didn't know who the hotel operator was for the last 2 years.

True, but now that we have an official press release, part of the thread title can be changed :D

^^ More official then the project board in front of the construction site?

^^ what does that currently say?

^^ SOFITEL Hotel

The cladding here got to be the biggest joke ina while. First the dreadfull stone-like brown tiles on the back, and now the totally dull green glass panels in front :puke:

^^ Well atleast it will be unique in the skyline ;)

by Ben Roberts on Jul 12, 2011

http://www.constructionweekonline.com/pictures/gallery/Projects/Mixed_Use__web.jpg
Dubai Mixed Use's office building on Sheikh Zayed Road.

The builder of the twin-tower Dubai Mixed Use development is to put a partition through the podium so that office tower can be completed while the hotel tower remains in design stage.

Raed Khaled Khadijah, construction manager on the Downtown Dubai project at ACC, said that the office structure had been completed earlier this year and that the company was executing the interiors work itself.

By contrast, the hotel tower - which shares the five-storey podium - has been frozen at five floors for the last year following the decision by the client to substantially revise its design and scale to adjust to a cooler Dubai market, sources told CW on a site visit in January. The hotel structure will now be 31 floors, almost half the 56 floors originally planned

We expect the handover of the office tower to happen in February 2012,” he said. “For the hotel we’re doing block work only.”

With swift work on the 49-storey office tower, ACC will install a partition to allow its timely delivery even as the hotel remains on the drawing board. “We’ve done this before, where there will be a partition between the two,” he said. “It means we can hand over everything, including the car park, so it can be finished and the tenants of the offices can move in.”

The office tower will comprise of commercial space from floors five to 21, with residential space above that.

Khadlijah added that ACC is also making swift work fixing the steel structure on the roof for the cladding and that it and the client is working on a design mock-up for a typical hotel room, and once this is completed, the full design for the scaled down hotel can begin.

http://www.constructionweekonline.com/article-13179-acc-eyes-partition-for-two-speed-dubai-mixed-use/

LOL, it will look silly

^^ VERY!!!

15/July/2011

Dubai Mixed Use

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Cladding seems to be progressing very quickly on this one......

Aug 7th picture from AP

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Source: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=139066042

Photo taken by Flickr user: Danny McL (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmcl/) on the 22nd of August 2011

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High-Resolution(4000 x 2248) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmcl/6071383932/sizes/o/in/photostream/)

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30/8/11

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R

That second tower is progressing really fast, especially given how slow it was to get going! :cheers:

17/September/2011

Dubai Mixed Use/ The Private Office

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LOVE THIS TOWER --IS IT ALL SOLD ?

Its not for sale , just for lease.

from today:

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R

Backside - some days ago:
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4/November/2011

Dubai Mixed Use, The Private office

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25/November/2011

Dubai Mixed Use , The Private Office

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16/December/2011

Dubai Mixed Use, The Private Office

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I'm a bit surprised that no one is complaining about the height reduction of the second tower (it looks topped out). But imho it looks better this way when you look at the two towers plus al hikma... :)

21-Jan-12

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